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MOLIERE

Oeuvres de Molière

Imprimerie de P. Prault, Paris 1734, 6 vol. in-4 (21,5x29,5cm), (6) lxxij ; 330pp. et (6) 447pp. et (6) 442pp. et (6) 420pp. et (6) 618pp. et (6) 554pp., relié.

Masterpiece Boucher as an illustrator and unquestionably one of the finest books made ??in the first part of the eighteenth ^century. Second edition. We rarely see Note that this edition.

The illustration includes a beautiful portrait by Coypel engraved by Lépicié a flagship title page repeated on each volume, 33 figures by Boucher engraved by Laurent Cars, and 198 vignettes and culs-de-lamp (more repeated) by Boucher, Blondel Oppenord and engraved by Cars and Joullain.

Binders full calf porphyry time. Back with five nerves decorated with parts of title and volume numbers of red morocco, coffered and gilded florets. Triple gilt fillets coaching dishes. All marbled edges. Tail jaws split six inches in the first volume, same thing on the second and fourth. Tail cap of the second volume threadbare. Three caps head and two tails restored and some reinforced corners. Some scuffs. A pale wetness in Volume I, and some very tiny and rare spots.

Boucher began his career as an illustrator and engraver, including participation in the illustration and ornamentation of several editions; the realization of Molière finally allows him to fully exploit its capabilities and gives publishing its absolutely exceptional. The costumes, the staging orchestrated by the artist are well wonder in the theater Molière which Boucher attend numerous times for his illustration. This is one of the first editions that fully and totally the work of a marriage between an artist and a text.

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